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Timewasters

Timewasters

Description: A struggling four-piece South London jazz band find themselves transported back in time to the 1920s via a urine-soaked block of flats. Stuck in the past after their `time machine' is destroyed, the group quickly realise that being young and black in the Jazz Age is a lot more difficult and unpleasant than they had expected. The band must navigate the parties and pitfalls of the Roaring Twenties while searching for a way back home, helped by some interesting figures including John Logie Baird, played by Kevin Eldon.
Genre: Comedy
Year Released: 2017
Number of seasons: 2
Number of episodes: 12
First episode air date: October 9, 2017
Program Creator: Daniel Lawrence Taylor
Nominations: British Academy Television Award for Best Scripted Comedy
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